ApparelMagic clients honored at CFDA Awards

The best brands in the business choose ApparelMagic. At the 2018 CFDA Awards, ApparelMagic clients were honored by their peers and the most important names in fashion.

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Thom Browne’s shrunken suiting gained him another nomination for Menswear Designer of the Year, adding to the many nominations and three awards already under his belt.

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Rachel Mansur and Floriana Gavriel, makers of gorgeously minimal handbags, were nominated for Accessory Designer of the Year for their eponymous line Mansur Gavriel.

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New to the CFDA awards was Mike Amiri for his line of luxuriously distressed clothes that have quickly attracted attention of press and buyers. Amiri earned a nomination for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent.

Whether it’s high end tailoring, rockstar quality menswear, or women’s handbags and accessories, ApparelMagic is the solution the fashion industry trusts to grow their businesses.

Punk princess brides at Naeem Khan

Starting a marriage in a mohawk? Throwing convention to the wind, ApparelMagic client Naeem Khan’s spring 2019 bridal collection shows that today’s brides-to-be are ready to start new chapters in their lives on a high note.

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These are not clothes for a quick trip to the court house. The designer, known for his opulent beading and more-is-more ethos, made a suite of dresses, capes, and Bianca Jagger style pantsuits that are fit for the most lavish destination wedding weekend.

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Whether a minidress with Gatsbyesque fringes of sequins and pearls, a sheath covered in a flocks-worth of marabou feathers, or a pair of thigh-high boots in virginal lace, the maximal bride can take her pick from any number of perfect statement dresses.

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ApparelMagic client Aimé Leon Dore takes Paris

The buzziest brand in streetwear right now is ApparelMagic client Aimé Leon Dore. Worn by some of the coolest men in and around fashion, these pared down knits and basics are more than building blocks in the modern man’s wardrobe.

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Behind the Queens-based brand is Teddy Santis, who credits his style to the streets and basketball courts of New York City. Bringing his collection to the world stage in Paris, he’s entering the big leagues at record speed.

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The brand’s fall 2018 collection, showcased in Paris, is all-in on warm jewel tones. Vintage details like Varsity-style striped ribs and thick cotton knits are just the right kind of throwback. Contrasting colors and strong statement pieces like a pair of deep hunter green boots are sure to be scooped up by the streetwear cognoscenti that make up the brand’s biggest fans.

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Apiece Apart embraces Autumnal Hues

ApparelMagic client Apiece Apart has carved themselves a very successful niche in low-key but always luxurious clothes. They call them “elevated basics”, but they’re so much more than that. This season, designers Starr Hout and Laura Cramer have outdone themselves.

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Filling the space between grown-up day dressing and trendy must-haves, Apiece Apart delivered a covetable mix of workwear-inspired pieces and the coziest of knits and outerwear. Case in point: a buttery soft leather trench coat with ample, blouson-style sleeves. A shaggy black coat looked perfect for melting into its faux-fur embrace.

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On the separates front, the designers made a big statement in pants. A pair of wide-legged jeans were cropped tea-length style, somewhere between the knee and the ankle, and they’re the freshest update on denim in years. Corduroy flares done up in a rich umber make fall something to look forward to.

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Robert Rodriguez rocks out at New York Fashion Week

ApparelMagic client Robert Rodriguez went lo-fi this season when he debuted his fall collection of rocker chick—or rocker-chic, more accurately—outfitting at New York Fashion Week.

With abstracted animal prints like a black-on-red leopard-spotted jumpsuit or a boxy sweater knitted in a zebra stripe pattern, these are clothes for the wild child turned polished career girl. Bridging these extremes sounds tough, but Rodriguez did it with heaps of style, like when he combined rockstar staples like leather pants with today’s must haves like asymmetrical knitwear and a quilted velvet coat in International Klein Blue.

Other styles were remixed, too. A lingerie-inspired camisole paired perfectly with mannish Glen Plaid tailored separates. The real star of the show though is Rodriguez’s silver trousers, which are pure Instagram bait whether they’re onstage or off.

More, More, More at Naeem Khan

No one does over-the-top glam like ApparelMagic client Naeem Khan, and this season at New York Fashion Week, he did not disappoint.

Embracing a whole world of cultures, Khan flipped between kimono-style wrap tops, ponchos with heavy embroidery, and bohemian-style sequins. When the world has so many treasures, he asks, why be confined to any one style? Khan’s propositions are truly a melting pot.

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With a nod to the growing athletic-wear and athleisure markets, Khan bookended his show with a few tracksuits elevated to the nth degree. Look one, a full-on paisley fantasia dripping with sequins from head to toe. Following that, a more restrained version, this time in white and trimmed in bold black lace. And his final look? A chic black velvet tracksuit with a maribou feather trim along the hood and tearaway pants falling open, reading as up-to-there slits. A perfect synthesis of evening elegance and pure fashion fun.

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Nicole Miller’s girls are a little bit punk, a little bit rock and roll

ApparelMagic client Nicole Miller keeps her finger on the pulse of the fashion. Hitting all the trends out of the ballpark at her New York Fashion Week show this week, she imbued her vision of the Nicole Miller girl with a hint of borrowed-from-the-boys style.

Her signature cool girls this season walked the runway with a more punkish vibe than usual. Wearing layered leathers, plaids, and sweats, these girls took these menswear standards and recombined them in nonchalantly with classic dresses and skirts.

Patches, a huge trend already making its way over from Europe, were well represented in Miller’s line, with stars and crests and text piled onto velour hoodies, leather jackets, and even eveningwear.

Florals, too, got an upgrade. Mixing multiple grungy flower prints together on the same dresses, she made the girly staple androgynous and edgy. Camo even got in the act when it was overprinted in metallic blossoms.

At New York Fashion Week, Eckhaus Latta puts out its most mature show yet

Just as the fashion world is getting comfortable calling Eckhaus Latta the hot young thing, designers Zoe Latta and Mike Eckhaus showed they are capable of dressing not just über cool clubbers but now arty intelligentsia too.

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This season’s big ticket at New York Fashion Week, the ApparelMagic client showed in a huge industrial space deep in Brooklyn. Beginning their runway show with a cycle of professional wear in creamy eggshells and greys, it was clear this show would be the pair’s most successful foray into the big leagues.

A twenty first century Jackie O suit rendered in thick, color-blocked knitwear, was paired with sheer gloves and worn with just the right amount of irony.

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Another knitted pattern, this time in grey and orange, appeared on a male model in the form of a crew neck sweater in one look, and later showed up sewn as a cocktail dress on a female plus size model, demonstrating Eckhaus Latta’s inclusive philosophy with ease.

Indeed, in a climate where fashion is figuring out how it fits, Eckhaus Latta is disrupting the status quo and bringing the industry into 2018.

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Sea is reinventing stylish staples

Always centered on the target and hitting the trends at the exact right moment, Sean Monahan and Monica Paolini’s brand Sea constantly puts out the kind of clothes that ahead-of-the-curve women want.

Never fussy or attention-hogging, the ApparelMagic client’s prefall collection stood out for the very items that made it blend it: classic styles with of-the-moment updates.

Sticking with a nipped waist and accentuating it with flared skirts and voluminous sleeves, the proportions were as sophisticated as they were flattering.

Balloon-leg pants were cropped at the ankle and hung off a wide waistband. A striped blouse turned professional dressing on its head with its leg o’ mutton sleeves.

Other looks were decorated with folk motifs, like a navy prairie dress banded with ribbons of trims. Worn open at the neck and with a pair of sandals, the look was less pioneer woman and more Greek-isle honeymooner.

The Sea girl, though, is no stranger to a bit of fun, and with pom poms and ruffles on lace tops with billowy sleeves and statement shoulders, she definitely got it.

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New Year’s dressing made deluxe by Sachin & Babi

ApparelMagic client Sachin & Babi went on a darkly elegant outing for their prefall collection. Their many fans are set to be full on Gatsby girls with chic black head wraps and earrings that dangled nearly to the shoulders.

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For the before-dinner hours, A few dresses covered in Florida-style flora were prim and proper, but still unquestionably glam.

With hints of the twenties, some modest but glamorous tea-length dresses were fringed in swaying metallic fringe.

More sober looks still held their own in the sparkle department, like a black and white dress with elegant teardrop bead trims, or all black looks with rhinestones in a delicate honeycomb pattern.

Other eveningwear included stunners like a bell-sleeved magenta gown and an electric blue one with a statement-sized bow. The Sachin & Babi woman is always in the spotlight, and these are the dresses that keep her there.

Public School knows what’s cool

Public School designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne have their fingers on the pulse of culture. For these two, it’s not just about clothes. Public School, an ApparelMagic client, is their laboratory for testing advanced fashion and sharing it with the world. This season, that meant midriffs, sheer outerwear, and harnesses everywhere.

Starting with the first look down the runway, an oversize plaid shirt with one side covered over with convenience store plastic bag prints like “Come Again” and safety disclaimers, you could tell this was another of their bids to combine scene-stealing fashion with a political message. The designers combined the fabrics (denim, nylon, and cotton jersey) of utilitarian workwear with the shapes (baggy pants, hoodies, and crop tops) of streetwear and came up with everything great about fashion today.

Heavy on the proletariat vibes, even Public School’s latest collaboration, seen in the collection’s blinding white activewear, was with Air Jordan, much more accessible than the European luxury brands some of their peers have teamed up with. That’s not to say that anything was lacking on the glamorous side of things, however. You can find in the collection a leather corset belt and a green ruffled cocktail dress, but in true Public School fashion, they were styled with a denim Canadian tuxedo and a sweatshirt, respectively.

ApparelMagic Client Jonathan Simkhai shows a springtime daydream

After winning the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2015, great things have been expected for New York-based designer and ApparelMagic client Jonathan Simkhai. As his spring 2018 collection shown during fashion week proves, he’s now in the big leagues, able to represent American fashion on the international stage.

In an almost wholly indigo and cream show, Simkhai’s capable hands worked breezy sportswear staples into of-the-moment shapes.

Striped shirting is having a moment, of course, and here it was pulled away from its business suit origins and into a realm of fantasy. Poplin shirts were knotted into handkerchief-hem dresses and separates with curly lace trims that could have been tatted by small forest fauna for a fairytale heroine.

Continuing this theme, innocent white gowns in eyelet lace were casually cinched in with a swath of sandy suede or leather.

The collection wasn’t just for storybook princesses, however. California dream girls also got a powerful shout out in the form of crochet dresses with sexy cutouts and glimpses of skin underneath the open-work designs, all perfect for a sunset walk on Venice Beach.

Moving past sundown, Simkhai had visions of ethereal chiffon nightgowns edged in lace and a dose of old Hollywood glamour. Day to night, Jonathan Simkhai’s spring line is a dream.